White balance and colour
Image: In the default standard colour mode, images have a good level of colour saturation and contrast
I was very impressed with how the EOS 60D rendered colours. Overcast autumn days are never a photographer’s favourite, but I was pleasantly surprised by how good the colours of JPEG images were straight from the camera. In AWB and overcast white balance settings, greens are replicated almost perfectly without being too blue or yellow. Similarly, earthy autumn colours were bold without being over-saturated and unrealistic.
Image: Even when taken in the shade on an overcast day, the colours and contrast captured by the EOS 60D produce images suitable for printing straight from the camera
During testing I rarely felt the need to take the camera out of AWB mode, as it produced well-balanced results regardless of the situation. I also found that when indoors under tungsten lighting, the results retain some of the ambient orange colour. Selecting the tungsten setting reduces this, but some of the atmosphere is lost. It is preferable to use the Kelvin setting option set to 3,400K, as this produces a slightly warmer image than 3,200K, which is the preset tungsten value. Of course, there is a custom white balance setting available for situations where a perfectly neutral white balance is required.
